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" Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses. "

Ginni Rometty

Choice

Growth

People

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Technology

Passion

" Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products. "

" So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. "

" With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you. "

" As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.' "

" India will not be at the center - it will be the center of this fourth technology shift. "

" You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you. "

" And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. "

" Be first and be lonely. "

Ginni Rometty

Lonely

First

" Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember. "

" You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is. "

" To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors. "

Ginni Rometty

You

Know

" And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices. "

" I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk. "

" India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world. "

" Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk. "

" We share no data with the government anywhere in the world. "

" Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process. "

" The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk. "

" I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings. "

" You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose. "

" I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients. "

" If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs. "

" This idea of 'New Collar' says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology that can be done without a four-year college degree and, therefore, 'New Collar' not 'Blue Collar,' 'White Collar.' It's 'New Collar.' "

" One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science. "